Recent content by Goodude

“Fish people” don’t need to literally lay eggs, just as “dwarves” don’t need to actually have a 4:1 male–female ratio. Even “elves” don’t have to have pointy ears; maybe they just wear a certain ear ornament during a solstice festivitial, and a printmaker captured that look, which then stuck. My...

I’m glad to see your setting is also a fantasy world built around interplanetary ecological interactions. In mine, I reinterpret vampires as the “Primordials” of a Lost Paradise: immigrants from a planet several AUs away that was scorched when their sun swelled into a red giant—400K years ago...

It may sound odd, but I do my worldbuilding when I’m stuck on my novel. At first it was just the stage where the story takes place—a few characters, a hazy mental map—then I created a “worldbuilding.doc” to collect scattered bits of inspiration. The document gradually ballooned to include...

In my world, “races” are all one species: regional/ecological human clades whose traits got mythologized and exaggerated — e.g., "elves," "dwarves," "halflings," "orcs," "fishfolk..." And the fantasy stereotypes are mostly folklore and outsider bias (even though some physical differences do...